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Airing for only six episodes in 1987 on CBS, The Popcorn Kid followed the ins and outs of the Majestic movie theater, especially Scott, the titular Popcorn Kid and an usher at theater who hopes to make it into the movie industry one day.

As we are at peak Star Wars this week, it seems like a good time to look back on one of the weirdest bits of the Expanded Universe, the short lived solo adventures of C3PO and R2D2 in Star Wars: Droids.

The misadventures of Spike Spiegel and the ever increasing crew of the Bebop spaceship begin with the first episode, Asteroid Blues, where Spike is after a wanted gangster with a stash of deadly drugs.

In our new semi-regular feature, we check out the first episodes of various shows to see where things started and how much they reflect the rest of the series. To kick things off, we look at the first episode of the 1995 animated series, Skeleton Warriors.